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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

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Mackert also serves as a judge for the American Health Care Association, and has written Baldrige case studies used to train examiners at the national and state levels. Awards may be given annually to organizations in each of six categories: manufacturing, service, small business, education, health care and nonprofit.

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Knowledge Transfer - A Generational Challenge For Strategy Execution

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Knowledge transfer methods include formal education and training, interviews, mentoring, apprenticeships, simulations and games, instant messaging, peer assists, communities of practice, job transfer, knowledge elicitation interviews, storytelling, wikis, blogs, research papers, and conferences. The solution?

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How to Connect Strategy and Execution

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We call this framework ACTAS, which stands for the first letter of the five Change Adoption Phases: Awareness, Commitment, Trained Learning, Applied Learning, and Sustained Application. Change Adoption Phase 3: Trained Learning. Let’s cover these one by one: Change Adoption Phase 1: Awareness. Change Adoption Phase 4: Applied Learning.

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

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Institute training on the job. Institute education and self-improvement. Move towards a single supplier for any one item. Playing many suppliers off against each other is wasteful. Improve constantly and forever. However good you are, you can always do better. The best place to learn. Institute leadership. Drive out fear.

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

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Institute training on the job. Institute education and self-improvement. Move towards a single supplier for any one item. Playing many suppliers off against each other is wasteful. Improve constantly and forever. However good you are, you can always do better. The best place to learn. Institute leadership. Drive out fear.

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

Six Disciplines

Institute training on the job. Institute education and self-improvement. Move towards a single supplier for any one item. Playing many suppliers off against each other is wasteful. Improve constantly and forever. However good you are, you can always do better. The best place to learn. Institute leadership. Drive out fear.

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